About the Authors

Lee Admoni-Elisha

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Itay Nakdimon

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Anna Shteinfer

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Tal Prezma

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Tasleem Arif

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Nir Arbel

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Anna Melkov

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Ori Zelichov

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Soroka University Medical Center and the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Itai Levi

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Soroka University Medical Center and the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Varda Shoshan-Barmatz

vardasb@bgu.ac.il

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LA VSB IN TA. Performed the experiments: TP AS LA IL NA OZ AM TA. Analyzed the data: LA IN NA TA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IL OZ. Wrote the paper: VSB.